Avery Harold. Highway Pirates; or, The Secret Place at Coverthorne
CHAPTER I. A DAY OF TROUBLE
CHAPTER II. THE KNOCKING ON THE WALL
CHAPTER III. MEN IN HIDING
CHAPTER IV. THE SINGING GHOST
CHAPTER V. NICHOLAS COVERTHORNE SHOWS HIS HAND
CHAPTER VI. A MAD PRANK
CHAPTER VII. TRIED AND SENTENCED
CHAPTER VIII. MY JOURNEY BEGINS
CHAPTER IX. THE RISING
CHAPTER X. HIGHWAY PIRATES
CHAPTER XI. THE LAST OF THE "TRUE BLUE."
CHAPTER XII. WITHIN THE CAVERN
CHAPTER XIII. THE BRANDY KEGS
CHAPTER XIV. ABANDONED
CHAPTER XV. IN DESPERATE STRAITS
CHAPTER XVI. THE SUBTERRANEAN TUNNEL
CHAPTER XVII. DAYLIGHT AT LAST
CHAPTER XVIII. A FURTHER FIND
CHAPTER XIX. BROUGHT TO BAY
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It was ten days before I saw Miles again; then he returned to school for the last three weeks of the half. Seeing him dressed in black, and noticing the unaccustomed look of sadness on his usually cheerful face, boylike I felt for a moment shy of meeting him; but with the first hearty hand-grip all feeling of restraint vanished, and I was able to give him the assurance of my sympathy and friendship. Then it was that I heard for the first time how he had arrived at Welmington too late to see his father alive – a fact which must have added greatly to the heaviness of the blow and the keenness of his grief.
Naturally, for the time, he had no heart to join in our usual amusements; and his rough, though for the most part good natured, schoolboy comrades showed their sympathy in allowing him to go his own ways. Just then "Foxes" and "Eagles" had buried the hatchet, owing to the fact that a spell of hot weather had set in, and the members of both "tribes" went amicably, nearly every day, to bathe in a neighbouring stream.
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We sat looking out over the vast expanse of ocean till the sun sank like a huge ball of fire below the horizon; then my companion rose once more to his feet.
"It's time we went back to supper," he said, "or mother will be getting anxious, and think we've met with an accident. She's been very nervous since father's death."
